> “Last time he geared up and went three shifts a day working his tail off,” the mayor recalled. “As soon as the issue died, he didn’t have any sales. He had to pay unemployment for all these people, and he had to gear down.”
This would be a good time to hire temp labor through a staffing agency; you pay a bit of a premium for that, but you also don't put the employees directly on your payroll that way (they're employees of the staffing agency instead, so said agency is then responsible for finding new work). People need the jobs, America needs masks, this guy wants to make and sell masks, win-win-win.
Like, I didn't really see a compelling reason in the article why that factory isn't working 24/7. I know of plenty of companies that deal in similarly-high-demand-in-pandemics products (my employer included) that are ramping up and running 24/7 and doing everything they can to get those products to people who need them. Most of them are doing that by hiring temps.
This would be a good time to hire temp labor through a staffing agency; you pay a bit of a premium for that, but you also don't put the employees directly on your payroll that way (they're employees of the staffing agency instead, so said agency is then responsible for finding new work). People need the jobs, America needs masks, this guy wants to make and sell masks, win-win-win.
Like, I didn't really see a compelling reason in the article why that factory isn't working 24/7. I know of plenty of companies that deal in similarly-high-demand-in-pandemics products (my employer included) that are ramping up and running 24/7 and doing everything they can to get those products to people who need them. Most of them are doing that by hiring temps.